1. The most important thing in the Olympic Games
is not winning, but taking part; the essential
thing in life is not conquering, but fighting well.”
Pierre de Coubertin, founder of modern Olympic Games
How well do you know
Which one is not an official Olympic mascot? How many times has
a. Quatchi the United States The Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius”
b. Sumi hosted the Winter means what?
c. Miga Olympics? a. Faster, higher, stronger
d. Luckma a. 2 b. 3 b. Harder, faster, stronger
c. 4 d. 6 c. I came, I saw, I conquered
d. Swifter, higher, stronger
What year did How many gold
medals has Canada Which
Calgary host Canadian city Canada’s Ross
the Olympics? won in hockey? Rebagliati won
a. 6 declined to
a. 1976 host the 1976 Winter the first-ever
b. 1980 b. 8 snowboarding gold medal.
c. 9 Olympic Games?
c. 1984 a. Toronto, Ont. He later had a positive drug
d. 1988 d. 15 test and was stripped of his How many nations took
b. Halifax, N.S.
c. Montreal, Que. medal. That decision was What’s the name of place in the first Winter
d. Whistler, B.C. later overturned. What drug the ancient Greek Olympic Games in 1924?
did he test positive for? God for whom the a. 16
Where will the 2014 Winter Olympics be held? a. marijuana Olympics were held in b. 29
a. Paris, France b. cocaine honour of? c. 48
b. Sochi, Russia c. Benzedrine a. Zeus b. Olympus d. 70
c. London, England d. stanozolol c. Perseus d. Achilles
d. Oslo, Norway
When did women’s
What is the Which of the bobsled make it’s Eddie Eagan is one of only
motto for following cities has Olympic debut? three people in the history of
the 2010 Winter not hosted a Winter a. 2000 b. 2002 the Olympics to win medals in
Olympics? Olympic Games? c. 2006 d. 2010 both the Summer and Winter Games.
a. One World One Dream a. Sarajevo,Yugoslavia What were his sports?
b. Light the Fire Within b. London, England a. Boxing and bobsleigh
c. Better Living Through What two b. Cross country skiing and
c. Turin, Italy
Sports disciplines What is the 1,500-metre dash
d. Nagano, Japan new event c. Judo and curling
d. With Glowing Hearts make up the
nordic combined? being d. Swimming and mogul
a. cross country skiing and introduced in
Where were the How many ski jumping Vancouver?
first Winter Olympic medals did b. cross country skiing and a. ski boarding When was the last time that both the Winter
Games held? Canada win alpine skiing b. ice bowling and Summer Games were held together in a
a. Calgary, Canada in Turin? c. alpine skiing and ski c. ski cross same year?
b. Chamonix, France a. 12 b. 16 jumping d. men’s triple luge a. 2002 b. 1992 c. 1924 d. 1988
c. Athens, Greece c. 22 d.24 d. ski cross and ski jumping curling
d. Nagano, Japan
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13. a. cross country skiing and ski jumping; 14. c. ski cross; 15. d. Swifter, higher, stronger; 16. a. Zeus; 17. a. 16; 18. a. Boxing and bobsleigh; 19. b. 1992;
Answers: 1. d. Luckma; 2. d. 1988; 3. b. 8; 4. b. Sochi, Russia; 5. d. With Glowing Hearts; 6. b. London, England; 7. Chamonix, France, in 1924; 8. d. 24; 9. c. 4; 10. d. Whistler, B.C.; 11. a. marijuana; 12. b. 2002;